Multi-Zone drying schemes for lowering the residual solvent content during multi-component drying of semicrystalline polymers

Drying Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 985-992

  Wong, Sim Siong ^a   Altinkaya, Sacide Alsoy ^b   Mallapragada, Surya K ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Drying; Modeling; Semicrystalline polymers; Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANOL; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SOLVENTS;

DRYING TEMPERATURE; MULTI-ZONE DRYING SCHEMES; SEMICRYSTALLINE POLYMER;

DRYING;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; DRYING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANOL; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 34250669588     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373930701396741     Document Type: Article

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